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Clean Eating Challenge!

Ok, so for many of us the hardest part about getting into shape is eating healthy!  This challenge is a personal challenge.  The goal is to hold yourself accounable for what you eat, and hopefully by reporting back to the group we will be able to take charge in our diets a little more forcefully!  Lets support eachother and work together to meet our personal goals! 

There is no deadline for sign-ups, anyone can join at any time!!  To join up please click on the following link as this thread was moved to the games and challenges forum!

http://caloriecount.about.com/clean-eating-ch allenge-ft152309

All you have to do is check in once a week (at least) & let us know how you're doing. If/when you "cheat", simply let us know & I will restart your start date. 

A cheat is defined as whatever a cheat would mean to you personally, whether it be going over your calories, bingeing, not eating enough, too many treats, etc. We all know when we've cheated, so just be honest with yourself

Let's be honest with each other & keep each other eating clean k? The PRIZE to the winner? Well that's easy - weight loss!!!!!!!!! (or maintenance for those at that stage!) Let's do this! 

Austie

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Here's the list of all signed up & the new rules:
(let me know if I missed you) 

If you lose your mind & cheat, just let me know. Then you can re-start from the next day. I'll simply unbold your name, along with updating your new start date. 

After being clean for a week after a re-start, I'll re-bold your name. So you always have a chance to feel like you are succeeding. 

Also, if you just don't feel like you want to partake in the challenge anymore, can you let me know so I can remove your name from the list? Thanks!! 

Anyone not checking in for one week (Monday through Sunday) will be removed from the challenge.

Good luck all! People's names in bold have been going the longest or have not restarted for at least a week - way to go!!!!!!!!

LINK TO CURRENT/NEW THREAD!!!!

http://caloriecount.about.com/clean-eating-ch allenge-ft152309

Ok so a little about me and what my goals are....

I am a new mommy who needs to revamp the way that I am eating! My goals for eating are two fold: first I would like to lose some weight, second I need to be meeting the nutritional needs in order to nurse my son.

My weaknesses are carbs and sweets- though I guess those are both carbs :)  And binge eating, once I start to slip off the wagon I find it EXTREAMLY hard to keep myself from falling all of the way off!

Clean eating for me is going to be managing my cravings, not allowing myself to fall all the way off the wagon simply because I want one thing!  It is also going to be meeting the calorie intake needs of a nursing mother with quality foods rather then sweets.  Also drinking more water!  Eventually I hope to edit these goals to make them more strick once I get started!

Wish me luck!

Original Post by austiemg:

Ok so a little about me and what my goals are....

 

I am a new mommy who needs to revamp the way that I am eating! My goals for eating are two fold: first I would like to lose some weight, second I need to be meeting the nutritional needs in order to nurse my son.

My weaknesses are carbs and sweets- though I guess those are both carbs :)  And binge eating, once I start to slip off the wagon I find it EXTREAMLY hard to keep myself from falling all of the way off!

Clean eating for me is going to be managing my cravings, not allowing myself to fall all the way off the wagon simply because I want one thing!  It is also going to be meeting the calorie intake needs of a nursing mother with quality foods rather then sweets.  Also drinking more water!  Eventually I hope to edit these goals to make them more strick once I get started!

Wish me luck!

I am EXACTLY like you. We've even got the same body shape! :P Haha! The sweets are the worstttttt, I just always crave. And once I give in, it's like.. well, might as well! And just completely, as you said, fall off the wagon! It's so hard though, my mom and sister love cookies, brownies, cake, ice cream, ect, so it's always in the house..... calling my name..... Ahahaha. Takes so much damn will power.

Anyway, sign me up! THIS IS GONNA BE A REAL CHALLENGE! Goodluck!:)

Please sign me up in a hurry.  I just fell off of the band wagon and this could be  the ride that put me back on track.  This is just the motivation that I need.  I started this website 6 days ago.  I stayed under my calorie intake every bit of 2 times. 

My weaknesses/bad habits include (but are not limited to) : binge eating, consuming too many calories, binge eating, woofing down ice cream and almost anything that will taste good in it especially peanut butter (not a huge problem lately///////welll...maybe it has been): other problem areas include: binge eating, alcohol consumption, binge eating, and last but not least binge eating.  Oh I forgot to mention: I also have a problem w/ binge eating.

I'm ready!!!!!! So, you better bring your A game.

Welcome Khandi and Illigal- tomorrow morning (or rather today but after sleep) we start day one!  Good luck to both of you!

Khandi, watch out for that binge monster!  My husband always laughs when he sees the hunger monster commercials on TV because they are so representative of me!

And Illigal, I wish my body still looked like that!  While I was unhappy with it when I took that picture, now (after nine months of pregnancy and a birth) I would take it back in a heartbeat!  I will put up a new pic as soon as my dr. clears me to work out!

Mind singing me up?

I just started today with my clean eating challenge and was just about to start a thread like this. My hubby is off with the army for four months and I promised myself that while he was away I would eat clean.

My hope is that I can stick to this, tone up and even maybe have better skin from eating healthy! My big secret goal is to comfortably wear a nice bikini - and reward myself and surprise the hubby with a trip in the sun.

I am 23, 161cm (which I think is 5"2 ??) and currently weigh 64.9kg (I think 143 pounds??) so I'm not unhealthy just a lil chubby. I have been converting the measurements on my phone - I'm Aussie so cm and kg all the way!

I am a typical 'endomorph' body - so not designed for running despite my best efforts. I work out enough but I hurt my ankle and have had a couple of weeks resting.

My biggest weaknesses are -Chocolate, ALL CARBS and going out for tea.. But worst of all is my little snacking that I do infront of the tv at night time!

Oh and of course - the binge monster is also stalking me!

I'm up for joining the challenge too!!!

Crackster- Welcome to the challenge!  What a fun goal to have, suprising the hubby!  I bet that it will be fun working towards that goal, knowing that you have such a great reward at the end!  Ah man, chocolate...curse the person who invented its sweet melty yummyness!Well good luck, and keep us updated on how it is going!  Oh and hope that the ankle feels better soon!  In the mean time if you are looking for a way to work out you could go swimming, it is a GREAT full body workout without any of the strain on your ankle!

This next week is going to be a real challenge for me because we are going camping- which means roasted marshmellows, hot dogs, hamburgers, and lots of snack food!  all evil bad stuff!  I just have to remember not to go over board!  At least I dont have to worry about the carbs and calories from drinks...nursing and drinking are no no (unfortinatly!  I was a cocktail waitress before this, and i miss being able to drink when I please!) so no stress resisting that one!  Now if only my child would develop an alergy to chocolate! : )

Can I join the challenge?

I’m 22 years old, 5’5, about 134 pounds.

I want to get back down to 128, so I need to lose 6 pounds. I have been trying to lose the same 6 pounds for the past 7 months now but socially drinking and pigging out every weekend ruins my weekday’s progress. I’m not considered “Overweight” but I would consider myself average but too jiggly all around. I know that if I could follow a clean diet and give up drinking that I could have the body of my dreams.

My weakness is Carbs and sweets, every weekend I pig out on bagels, ice cream, chips, cookies….it’s ridiculous and it needs to stop.

I think that if I was in this challenge I could have more willpower :)

I will add you today!  Do you want your start date to be today or tomorrow?  Just let me know!  Your right eating clean will make a ton of difference!  Good luck with those last 6!

Please sign me up!  I think this is just what I need to get back on track.

Two months ago, I was at my heaviest weight EVER (234 - it pains me to write it).  I lost 12 pounds pretty quickly and, even though I was hungry all the time, I stopped losing weight for a few weeks, which was very demoralizing.  I finally broke the plateau by eating more calories, but it seems to have triggered some bad eating habits again.  Today I had fruit and salad...and 4 biscuits with butter.  Yesterday I gorged myself on more frozen custard than any human should eat in a month!!  I'm basically eating at maintenance again, or slightly above.  I need some accountability.  I'm 29, have been fairly heavy since middle school (despite being an athlete) and don't want to start another decade fat!  (Also, I miss my cute clothes!)

Clean eating for me will be getting a good mix of macro- and micro-nutrients (I never get enough protein and always get too much fat), eating whole foods whenever possible, staying away from the candy dish full of luscious Dove chocolates at work (mmm - damn you, Dove!), not bringing tempting food into my home, not stress eating (a biggie for me), not bingeing and not falling back into eating patterns that are not working and have never worked for me.  A tall order, I must say!  I'm allowing myself one "treat" meal a week, which won't count as a "cheat."

Good luck (and willpower) to us all!  I wanna see my name - and yours - in *B*O*L*D*!

sign me up!  tomorrow will be my first day :)

so i might be the youngest on here, i'm 17.  i'll also probably be the shortest at about 4'11.5" and i currently weight about 107/108.  i know, it doesn't seem like a lot but i'm really short.  plus i am a serious ballet student, so i need to get down around 90 before auditions start in the winter.  ideally, i'd like to get there by november.

so about my eating plan.  i am a vegetarian (just putting that out there) and i am prone to binge eating (i see that is a reoccurring theme here).  so for me, not cheating will be staying under 1,300 calories no matter what!  but that is my requirement for now.  i try to eat very healthy as well and usually do so that isn't too big of a problem.  sometimes i just have a little too much...

anyways, lets do this!

Yes I would like today's date to be my start day :) Started my morning off right with steel cut oats, egg whites, and a coffee. One day at a time!!

Count me in on this challenge.  Reading these I see my problems as well, that dang binge monster... I know that what I consider a binge may not be to others but to me it is.  I know it is because I only eat that way when I am alone and not hungry.....

This time I truly want to lose the weight that I have packed on and for the last year and a half can not get rid of.  I started this morning and I am sticking with this.  No more exscuses.  I want to lose the weight and I want to eat healthy so that I feel good about being me.  When I over eat I feel sick to my stomach, I get bloated and puffy and why would anyone want to be like that?  I dont any more and I am in!!!

Oh my stats: CW:147  LW: 98  GW: 125 

I would like to participate in this challenge too! I've been trying to eat cleanly most of the time (except weekends) and I think this challenge is exactly what I need!

Can today be my start date? I've started the day off well.  Thanks!

About me: I'm 23 years old, 5'10", and weigh between 154.5 and 157.5. I'm having my measurements taken for my wedding dress in 2 weeks and am really stressed about it. When I get stressed I turn to unhealthy foods which is extremely unhelpful!

Hey, I'm in too!

I just went way over my calories today and it's only 5th day of my diet... So I figured it will be good to keep myself accountable. I would like to start tommorow, is that ok?

Here are my personal tasks:

1. Eat between 1500-1800 kCal a day

2. Be physically active at least 30min a day (jog, workout, basketball, tennis, dance, whatever-just be active and be sweating :) )

3. Consume at least 80g of proteins daily (I'm always low on proteins, cause I'm not a meat-lover)

By the way, my name is Yvonne, I'm 17, 5'9" and 75 kilos. I'm hoping to reach my 60 kilos goal till spring 20110 (takin it slow and steady), which is about  36 pounds to lose...

So I'm checking in to see how everyone is going!!  Keeping on track in the first week...

Austie : How new is new mum? Do you know when you'll be able to excersize again?

Illingal/ sugarbabe : You both sound just like me addicted to sweets and brownies and things!! How is it going?

Khandi : Any binges so far?

testa_rosa - Almost half way till BOLD!!!!!!!!!!

It is day three for me and I have done really well so far... no naughty food, excersize each day (as much as I can do). I have resisted the urge to snack infront of the telly and the packet of barbecue chips in the pantry remains sealed!

I have made two dinners so far without added oils and with lots of vegetables... salmon and chicken with brown rice so far.... any other yummy suggestions?

Crackster:  I haven't binged yet.  I actually picked up some new lifesaving habbits.  Today, I made tacos w/ wheat tortillas, lean ground turkey, and low sodium taco seasoning.  I forgot to get myself fat free cheese shred  - so I just cancelled out cheese all together and put extra veggies.  I thought about eating sweets once today, but I didn't buy any.  A nice juicy apple satisfied my craving.

Austie:  I'm not only watching out for the binge monster -- I'm running full speed.  It's such a powerful and tricky little booger.

Keep up the good work....

so a successful day one!  i ate well, i went to ballet class and then walked/jogged the golf course (around five miles).  keep it up everyone!

crackster: I am indeed addicted to all sweets. I never crave savory things, just desserts and breakfast items....I wish I craved only veggies and protein lol

This morning I got up at 530am and went to the gym before work :) So my workout is out of the way.

So far foodwise I have been good: Breakfast- steel cut oatmeal and fat free yogurt, coffee. And Lunch is- Spaghetti squash with diced tomatoes and tuna, side salad with fat free dressing, and a diet coke (I love diet coke, I need to quit it thought lol ) so far so good!~

When are we doing weigh-in's?

Hello and welcome to Lofudge, Ifela, Fit4Life, and pinktulip92!  We are glad to have you join us!  

As for me, the new mom thing is going good, but doesnt seem to leave me much time for anything else! I have a dr. appt in a couple weeks, hopefully he will clear me to start my workouts then!  It makes it so much easier to eat clean when you are working out as well!  Though i have to say today I am proud of myself!  I am out of town visiting my mom and then headed on a camping trip, and today we were shopping for food to take with us and it was MY idea to NOT buy the cupcakes!  (thank goodness cause having them in the house would have been trouble for sure!)  

As for weigh-ins, I hadnt actually planed on doing weigh-ins as part of the challenge...however if you guys are up for it goodness knows it wouldnt be a bad thing for me!  what do the rest of you think?

Okay so wowwwww, it's been such a hard few days.. I've been under so much stress.. and I've been feeling really really low, but I still somehow haven't dived into the sweets..... I've had the occasional ice cream or sugary granola bar just so I don't go completely cold-turkey... I don't know how much longer I can last though... Weekends are the hardest because all my younger siblings, 13, 15, and 15, come over, and just want to eat juuuunkkkkkkk, and then they laugh at me for eating the healthy stuff. :/ So I know today I got in the bag.. no feelings of temptation at all.. I usually feel a binge day coming on, so today is very unlikely.. How's everyone else doing so far? :)